Category: 1:72 scale

• I Can See Clearly Now! – F2A Two

  

  Woah! That’s a revelation! I’ve been learning the business of masking and painting clear canopies and turrets for the 1:72 aircraft over the past couple of months. It has not been an easy process, as I have discovered just how un-detailed parts can be in some kits. If you combine this with the propensity of…

  Dick Stein

  April 5, 2018

  1:72 scale, Australian aircraft, Chinese models, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Painting, Stein Index Number, subassembly, Uncategorized

  canopy, masking windows, Painting

• Cheap Refreshment – F2A One

  

  After the recent spate of complexity – the Special Hobby Avro Anson Mk1 – I found myself with a thirst for simplicity and strong drink. My desire prompted me to look over the kit shelves at Hobbytech in Myaree. I have more Special Hobby and some Airfix on the stash shelf, but quite frankly I…

  Dick Stein

  April 3, 2018

  1:72 scale, Chinese models, Model Airplane, Scale Models

  1:72, Brewster, Buffalo, RAAF, simplicity

• The Complete Story Of…Sin Five

  

  ” Well? Where is it? Where’s the last part of the title? We paid for the whole damn title…” I’ll get round to it eventually…but first a word about sloth for modellers. The word is  – slow down. No sense rushing a modelling job. Slow and steady wins the race. A good job well begun…

  Dick Stein

  March 31, 2018

  1:72 scale, Australian aircraft, Canadian aircraft, Chinese models, Czech models, Doll Houses, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Modelling Supplies, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  inattention, lack of interest, laziness

• What’cha Got Cookin’ ?

  

  Ansons…I couldn’t get the plain variety so this is the one with resins…I mean raisins… Currently it is raisin’ my blood pressure. I was nearly right by the time I got to spraying the grey undercoat on the ship. I’d filled and sanded as much as I thought I could decently do, and resisted the…

  Dick Stein

  March 24, 2018

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, Czech models, Enamel, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Painting, Scale Models, Tabletop Photography, Workshop

  airbrushing, Anson Mk1, Enamel, Humbrol, model photography

• The Resin Problem

  

  Note: This is the second time this post has appeared in The Little World – I miscued it yesterday. If you are confused, join the club… Let’s hope the cunning plan works, Baldrick. Well, the Special Hobby 1:72 Anson is progressing, but the journey has been one of some rather unpleasant discoveries: a. The interior…

  Dick Stein

  March 22, 2018

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, Czech models, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Scale Models, subassembly

  Polyurethane resin, resin casting, warpage

• Who Said Yellow Was For Cowards?

  

  The author of the wonderful illustration of the Canadian Anson Mk1 – Mr Reidel –  will forgive me, I hope, for making a desktop image of his drawing. I’m posting it up on my computer to cheer myself up. I have a suspicion that I will need the inspiration during the next few weeks as…

  Dick Stein

  March 21, 2018

  1:72 scale, Czech models, Decals, Enamel, Hobby Shops, Model Airplane, Painting

  Anson Mk1, Avro, Enamel, Humbrol, RCAF, Special Hobby

• A Happy Landing At RAAF Cunoath Downs

  

  The ship is down safely – sitting in its own box all complete – ready for transfer to the WWII forward base at RAAF Cunoath Downs. It’s a secret airfield in the middle of the Western Australian bush. Secret only in the sense that no-one goes past it on the road because it’s too far…

  Dick Stein

  March 19, 2018

  1:72 scale, Czech models, Miniature photography, Model Airplane, Painting, RAAF Cunoath Downs, Scale Models

  Northrop Delta 1D, RAAF, transport

• The Windows Of The World…

  

  The windows of the songwriter’s world may be covered in raindrops but the windows of the Little World’s modelmakers generally exhibit glue, paint, and fingerprints. It did not use to bother me, but I’ve grown more childish as I have matured and I now find it an annoyance. The solution to the problem still seems…

  Dick Stein

  March 18, 2018

  1:72 scale, Acrylic, Czech models, Enamel, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models

  masking windows, Painting

• Patchy Is As Patchy Does

  

  And no-one is patchier than me… I watched a YouTube post some time ago from a modeller who was making extremely precise masks for spray painting by using his inkjet printer. I believe he was printing on a self-adhesive paper and planned to stick this onto plastic models. He was very concerned about scaling the…

  Dick Stein

  March 17, 2018

  1:72 scale, Czech models, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, YouTube videos

  camouflage, inkjet printing, Masking, RAAF

• The Brown Sound

  

  Well that was interesting. Yesterday’s post about painting the underside of the Northrop Delta 1D was all very well until I decided to mask it and turn it over for the topcoat. The masking went well – various pads and rolls of masking tape squeezed and folded into the crannies underneath – the last few…

  Dick Stein

  March 15, 2018

  1:72 scale, Czech models, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models

  airbrushing, Northrop Delta 1D, Painting, spray guns